HomeBrew error -6

I have been trying to install homebrew on my wii and I got pretty far with it, but when I try to start up the homebrew browser to look for apps it keeps saying:Requesting repositories list... Read error -6 occured. Retrying...Read error -6 occured. Retrying...Read error -6 occured. Retrying...and it keeps going like that without stopping...

Its so annoying that the hbb doesn't update anymore (especially for new homebrew apps), the centralized setup really needs to be simplified to reduce the amount of manual work involved in maintaining it. I was working on an interface to scrape the info directly from the wiki but now the dev community is too small for it to even matter.